eiis command error

[wowsonsun]

When I installed ‘npm install -g electron-image-ipc-server’, type ‘eiis’ and the following error occurred.

[wowsonsun]

I looked at the source code according to the prompt's error and found the prompt "spawn"
  Unknown" is in the source code

[njleonzhang]

sorry. it currently haven't tested on Windows, and just work for Mac os. I will try to support Windows later.

[wowsonsun]

Thank you, I am looking forward to supporting Windows. I hope this plugin can be marked for MAC only.= =

[njleonzhang]

@wowsonsun sorry for the convenience

[dreamer2q]

internal/child_process.js:405
    throw errnoException(err, 'spawn');
    ^

Error: spawn UNKNOWN
    at ChildProcess.spawn (internal/child_process.js:405:11)
    at spawn (child_process.js:548:9)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\dreamer2q\scoop\persist\nodejs\bin\node_modules\electron-image-ipc-server\index.js:18:12)   
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1147:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1167:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:996:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:896:14)
    at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (internal/modules/run_main.js:71:12)
    at internal/main/run_main_module.js:17:47 {
  errno: -4094,
  code: 'UNKNOWN',
  syscall: 'spawn'
}

Same issue, frustrated!

[Amomum]

I also stumbled into this on my Windows 7.
Looks like the reason is that that spawn call for some reason tries to spawn a .js file directly and that is not possible on Windows; you have to run it like node smth.js.

Your package json should have resolved that by 'bin' property - but for some reason it didn't.

So I tried to change this spawn line:

electron = spawn(electronPath, [scriptPath, scriptPath], {
    env: spawn_env,
    stdio: ['pipe', 'pipe', 'pipe', 'ipc']
});

to this:

electron = spawn('node', [electronPath, scriptPath, scriptPath], {
    env: spawn_env,
    stdio: ['pipe', 'pipe', 'pipe', 'ipc']
});

And the error went away! However, extension still doesn't work :( and not giving any obvious errors anywhere. just quietly does nothing. Electron doesn't seem to be executed, my github API key is not used.
I'm not sure where to look next.